During the late summer and and through the Fall of 2023 I embarked on a series of treks through the Himalayas starting in Ladakh and working my way to Bhutan. …
Kurt Lauer
United States of America \ Member since September 2021
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My name is Kurt, and I live in Seattle, Washington. My main passion in travel is hiking and exploring National Parks, Wilderness areas, and dramatic landscapes. My biggest goal in traveling has been to hike in every US wilderness area - and so far I've been to 748 of America's 803 designated wilderness areas. I've also been to all the national parks (except the one in American Samoa) and almost all the National Monuments and National Park Historical sites. In my travels to different parks around the world, I noticed a couple years back that I had been to a number of WHS, so I came across this site, and decided to add them up. Since then I've made a more concerted effort to visit them, though my focus is still parks and the natural landscapes. Just finished a six month journey to Indian subcontinent. My focus was hiking in the Himalayas in India, Nepal and Bhutan, but I added a couple extra months and visited all the other non-Himalayan WHS in Bangladesh, Nepal and India. This allowed me to be the first person in the group to visit all the India WHS (though this won't last long as the are nominating 2 more for addition in the coming years and I only went to one of them). What I like about visiting WHS is it gets me to places that I wouldn't necessarily visit and the journey to get there takes me to a lot of interesting places along the way.
Recent Visits
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10July 18, 2025Cerrado: Cerrado Protected Areas
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Santa BarbaraTentative site - with 2027 proposed date to be inscribed. Beautiful hike from Huancavelica. Very historical in regards to its impact in history. Old church most prominent aspect of remains.01July 11, 2025
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Beemster Polder
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Colonies of Benevolence
- Corvey
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Eisinga Planetarium
- Fagus Factory
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Jelling
- Kinderdijk
- Lower German Limes
- Lübeck
- Major Town Houses
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Schokland
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Stevns Klint
- Stoclet House
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Van Nellefabriek
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses
- Wadden Sea
- Zollverein
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- Amiens Cathedral
- Belfries
- Champagne
- Chartres Cathedral
- Flemish Béguinages
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Le Havre
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Provins
- Reims
- The Four Lifts
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- Acropolis
- Aflaj irrigation system
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agra Fort
- Ahmadabad
- Ajanta Caves
- Aksum
- Albi
- Altamira Cave
- Al Zubarah
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Thebes
- Angkor
- Ani
- Antigua Guatemala
- Anuradhapura
- Aphrodisias
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
- Aranjuez
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Arequipa
- Assisi
- Asturian Monuments
- Atapuerca
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Avila
- Ayutthaya
- Bagan
- Bagerhat
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bahla Fort
- Bamberg
- Banska Stiavnica
- Bardejov Town
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
- Battir
- Belem
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bethlehem
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Brasilia
- Brugge
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur
- Burgos Cathedral
- Cahokia Mounds
- Calakmul
- Camino Real
- Campeche
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Cartagena
- Çatalhöyük
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla
- Centennial Hall
- Central Highlands
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Champaner-Pavagadh
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chavin
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Chichen-Itza
- Chitwan National Park
- Chola Temples
- Churches and Convents of Goa
- Churches of Chiloé
- Churches of Peace
- City of Bath
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Cuzco
- Dacian Fortresses
- Danube Limes
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
- Dholavira: A Harappan City
- Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens
- Djenné
- Dolomites
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Edinburgh
- Elephanta Caves
- El Escurial
- Ellora Caves
- El Tajin
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fasil Ghebbi
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens
- Forth Bridge
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fort Jesus
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Fujisan
- Gammelstad
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Gelati Monastery
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Giant's Causeway
- Glacier parks
- Göbekli Tepe
- Gobustan Rock Art
- Goias
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Himalayan National Park
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Great Wall
- Gros Morne National Park
- Guanajuato
- Gulf of California
- Gulf of Porto
- Gunung Mulu
- Haghpat and Sanahin
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Hampi
- Hattusha
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Historic Cairo
- Hoi An
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hortobágy
- Horyu-ji Area
- Hospicio Cabañas
- Huangshan
- Hué
- Humayun's Tomb
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Incense Route of the Negev
- Independence Hall
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Kakadu National Park
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Kandy
- Kathmandu Valley
- Kaziranga National Park
- Keoladeo National Park
- Kew Gardens
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Khangchendzonga National Park
- Kii Mountain Range
- Kinabalu Park
- Kladruby nad Labem
- Koh Ker
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kutna Hora
- La Fortaleza and San Juan
- Lake District
- Lalibela
- Land of Frankincense
- Laponian Area
- Las Medulas
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Lima
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Los Alerces National Park
- Los Glaciares
- Luang Prabang
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Lumbini
- Macao
- Machu Picchu
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- Mahabalipuram
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Mammoth Cave
- Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Manu National Park
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Medina of Essaouira
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Meknes
- Memorial Sites of Genocide
- Mesa Verde
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Moenjodaro
- Mogao Caves
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Monastery of Geghard
- Monastery of Horezu
- Monticello
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Morelia
- Mountain Railways of India
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mount Kenya
- Mount Wutai
- Mtskheta
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- My Son
- Mystras
- Nahanni National Park
- Nalanda
- Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- Nemrut Dag
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nikko
- Ningaloo Coast
- Nubian Monuments
- Nyungwe National Park
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Old Town of Galle
- Olinda
- Olympia
- Olympic National Park
- Oporto
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Pannonhalma
- Par force hunting landscape
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Pattadakal
- Pergamon
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Plitvice Lakes
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potala Palace
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Puebla
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Qalhat
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Québec
- Querétaro
- Quito
- Qutb Minar
- Rabat
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Rani-ki-Vav
- Rapa Nui
- Ravenna
- Red Fort
- Redwood
- Regensburg
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhodes
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
- Røros
- Roșia Montană
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Saint Catherine Area
- Salamanca
- Salvador de Bahia
- Salzburg
- Sambor Prei Kuk
- San Antonio Missions
- Sanchi
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- San Miguel de Allende
- Santiago de Compostela
- Santiniketan
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Semmering Railway
- Seville
- Sewell Mining Town
- SGang Gwaay
- Shark Bay
- Sheki
- Sian Ka'an
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Sigiriya
- Simien National Park
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sintra
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Statue of Liberty
- Stonehenge and Avebury
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Summer Palace
- Sundarbans National Park
- Sun Temple, Konarak
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Sydney Opera House
- Taj Mahal
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Taxila
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley
- Telc
- Temple of Heaven
- Teotihuacan
- Tequila
- Te Wahipounamu
- Thang Long
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Thessalonika
- The Sundarbans
- Thingvellir
- Tikal National Park
- Timbuktu
- Tiwanaku
- Tiya
- Tlacotalpan
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Toledo
- Tomb of Askia
- Tongariro National Park
- Tower of Hercules
- Tower of London
- Trebic
- Trier
- Tr’ondëk-Klondike
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Tugendhat Villa
- Turaif Quarter
- Uluru
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Upper Svaneti
- Urbino
- Urnes Stave Church
- Uxmal
- Val d'Orcia
- Vall de Boi
- Valparaiso
- Vatican City
- Vatnajökull National Park
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
- Vienna
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Vlkolinec
- Volubilis
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadi Rum
- Walled City of Baku
- Warsaw
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Western Ghats
- West Lake
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Würzburg Residence
- Xanthos-Letoon
- Xidi and Hongcun
- Xochicalco
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Zacatecas
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- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Bulwarked Fortresses of the Raia
- Cambodian Memorial Sites
- Central Park
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Flinders Ranges
- FRIM Selangor
- Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße
- Hikone-Jo
- Lake Tana Island Monasteries and Wetland
- Møns Klint
- Network of fortresses of Carcassonne
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- Orchha
- Sarnath
- Tabon Cave
- The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
- Vila Viçosa
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Top 10 Missing
- Galapagos Islands 4.60
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Serengeti 4.41
- Samarkand 4.37
- Persepolis 4.37
- Ngorongoro 4.36
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka 4.31
- Borobudur 4.27
- St. Petersburg 4.19
- Cordoba 4.18
Completed Countries
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Belize
- Georgia
- Holy See
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Japan
- Lesotho
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Mali
Country visits
- Albania: Primeval Beech Forests
- Andorra: Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- Argentina: Iguazu National Park Ischigualasto / Talampaya Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba Los Glaciares Qhapaq Ñan Los Alerces National Park The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Armenia: Haghpat and Sanahin Monastery of Geghard Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Australia: Great Barrier Reef Gondwana Rainforests Greater Blue Mountains Kakadu National Park Shark Bay Tasmanian Wilderness Uluru Wet Tropics of Queensland Royal Exhibition Building Sydney Opera House Australian Convict Sites Ningaloo Coast Flinders Ranges
- Austria: Salzburg Semmering Railway Graz Hallstatt-Dachstein Schönbrunn Wachau Cultural Landscape Vienna Fertö/Neusiedlersee Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Danube Limes Great Spa Towns of Europe Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße
- Azerbaijan: Walled City of Baku Gobustan Rock Art Sheki
- Bangladesh: Bagerhat Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur The Sundarbans Mughal Mosques in Bangladesh Deltaic Landscape of Bangladesh Mughal Forts on Fluvial Terrains in Dhaka Mughal and Colonial Temples of Bangladesh Cultural Landscape of Mahasthan and Karatoya River The Architectural Works of Muzharul Islam
- Belarus: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Belgium: Belfries Brugge Flemish Béguinages Grand Place, Brussels Major Town Houses Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai The Four Lifts Plantin-Moretus Museum Primeval Beech Forests Stoclet House Mining Sites of Wallonia Colonies of Benevolence The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Great Spa Towns of Europe Funerary and memory sites of the First World War Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo Le champ de bataille de Waterloo Les citadelles mosanes Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles Les passages de Bruxelles Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Belize: Belize Barrier Reef
- Bhutan: Royal Manas National Park (RMNP) Dzongs
- Bolivia: Tiwanaku Qhapaq Ñan Sacred Titicaca Lake Sajama National Park
- Bosnia Herzegovina: Primeval Beech Forests
- Brazil: Brasilia Iguacu Olinda Salvador de Bahia Atlantic Forest South-East Cerrado Protected Areas Goias Rio de Janeiro
- Bulgaria: Primeval Beech Forests
- Burkina Faso: Sya, centre historique de Bobo-Dioulasso
- Cambodia: Angkor Sambor Prei Kuk Koh Ker Cambodian Memorial Sites
- Canada: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks Gros Morne National Park Nahanni National Park Old Town Lunenburg Québec SGang Gwaay Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Wood Buffalo National Park Glacier parks Tr’ondëk-Klondike Stein Valley Gwaii Haanas
- Chile: Churches of Chiloé Rapa Nui Valparaiso Sewell Mining Town Qhapaq Ñan Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins NPs
- China: Great Wall Huangshan Imperial Palace Imperial Tombs Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor Mogao Caves Xidi and Hongcun Classical Gardens of Suzhou Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha Potala Palace Summer Palace Temple of Heaven Yungang Grottoes Macao Mount Wutai West Lake Beijing Central Axis
- Colombia: Cartagena Qhapaq Ñan
- Costa Rica: Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves Corcovado and Isla del Cano
- Croatia: Plitvice Lakes Primeval Beech Forests Venetian Works of Defence
- Czechia: Holy Trinity Column Cesky Krumlov Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz Holasovice Kutna Hora Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape Litomysl Castle Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk Prague Telc Trebic Tugendhat Villa Primeval Beech Forests Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge Great Spa Towns of Europe Kladruby nad Labem
- Denmark: Kronborg Castle Jelling Roskilde Cathedral Wadden Sea Stevns Klint Moravian Church Settlements Par force hunting landscape Viking Age Ring Fortresses Møns Klint The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord The Maritime Heritage of Dragor Amalienborg and its district
- Ecuador: Quito Qhapaq Ñan
- Egypt: Ancient Thebes Historic Cairo Nubian Monuments Pyramids (Memphis) Saint Catherine Area
- Estonia: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Ethiopia: Simien National Park Fasil Ghebbi Lalibela Tiya Aksum Simien Mountains National Park Lake Tana Island Monasteries and Wetland
- Finland: High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago Struve Geodetic Arc
- France: Belfries Loire Valley Chartres Cathedral Fontainebleau Mont-Saint-Michel Paris, Banks of the Seine Pyrénées - Mont Perdu Reims Versailles Amiens Cathedral Fortified City of Carcassonne Gulf of Porto Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France Provins Le Havre Fortifications of Vauban Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Albi Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin Champagne The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944 Great Spa Towns of Europe Funerary and memory sites of the First World War Network of fortresses of Carcassonne Rouen
- Georgia: Gelati Monastery Mtskheta Upper Svaneti Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands
- Germany: Cologne Cathedral Würzburg Residence Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust Hildesheim Cathedral and Church Lübeck Bamberg Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Potsdam Rammelsberg and Goslar Frontiers of the Roman Empire Stralsund and Wismar Upper Middle Rhine Valley Zollverein Town Hall and Roland, Bremen Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Primeval Beech Forests Regensburg Wadden Sea Fagus Factory Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Corvey Margravial Opera House Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge Moravian Church Settlements Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Danube Limes Great Spa Towns of Europe Hedeby and Danevirke Lower German Limes Schwerin Residence Ensemble Aachen Cathedral The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria Green Belt Trier
- Greece: Archaeological Site of Delphi Epidaurus Meteora Mycenae and Tiryns Mystras Olympia Rhodes Thessalonika Acropolis Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Guatemala: Antigua Guatemala Tikal National Park Town of Chichicastenango
- Holy See: Vatican City Rome
- Hungary: Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs Budapest Hortobágy Aggtelek and Slovak Karst Hollókö Pannonhalma Fertö/Neusiedlersee Tokaji Wine Region
- Iceland: Thingvellir Vatnajökull National Park Thingvellir National Park Mývatn and Laxá
- India: Fatehpur Sikri Khajuraho Group of Monuments Taj Mahal Keoladeo National Park Churches and Convents of Goa Chola Temples Elephanta Caves Ellora Caves Hampi Humayun's Tomb Kaziranga National Park Manas Wildlife Sanctuary Mahabalipuram Pattadakal Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers Qutb Minar Sanchi Sundarbans National Park Sun Temple, Konarak Ajanta Caves Mahabodhi Temple Complex Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Champaner-Pavagadh Red Fort Jantar Mantar Hill Forts of Rajasthan Great Himalayan National Park Rani-ki-Vav Western Ghats Khangchendzonga National Park Nalanda The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Ahmadabad Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai Dholavira: A Harappan City Jaipur City, Rajasthan Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple Santiniketan Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas Orchha Sarnath Agra Fort Cold Desert Cultural Landscape of India Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi Ekamra Kshetra Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam Desert National Park Mattanchery Palace Satpura Tiger Reserve Sun Temple, Modhera Varanasi Gwalior Fort Mountain Railways of India
- Indonesia: Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Ireland: Brú na Bóinne Sceilg Mhichíl
- Israel: Old City of Jerusalem Masada Old City of Acre White City of Tel-Aviv Incense Route of the Negev Bahá’i Holy Places Jerusalem Sea of Galilee The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles Caesarea
- Italy: Venice and its Lagoon Assisi Verona Florence Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) Costiera Amalfitana Botanical Garden, Padua Naples Pompei Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands Su Nuraxi di Barumini Ravenna Residences of the Royal House of Savoy San Gimignano Siena Urbino Vicenza and the Palladian Villas Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy Val d'Orcia Dolomites Genoa Mantua and Sabbioneta Primeval Beech Forests Longobards in Italy Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont Venetian Works of Defence Great Spa Towns of Europe Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles The Porticoes of Bologna Orvieto Rome
- Japan: Ancient Kyoto Genbaku Dome Himeji-jo Horyu-ji Area Itsukushima Shrine Nikko Shirakawa-go and Gokayama Ancient Nara Gusuku of Ryukyu Shirakami-Sanchi Yakushima Kii Mountain Range Shiretoko Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine Hiraizumi Ogasawara Islands Fujisan Tomioka Silk Mill The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Amami-Oshima Island Okinoshima Island Jomon Prehistoric Sites Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Hikone-Jo Sado Island Gold Mines Asuka-Fujiwara Ancient Kamakura Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Jordan: Petra Wadi Rum
- Kenya: Mount Kenya Fort Jesus The Maasai Mara Maasai Mara Game Reserve Amboseli National Park
- Laos: Luang Prabang
- Latvia: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Lesotho: Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Lithuania: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Luxembourg: City of Luxembourg
- Malaysia: Gunung Mulu Kinabalu Park Melaka and George Town Lenggong Valley Niah Caves FRIM Selangor
- Mali: Cliff of Bandiagara Djenné Timbuktu Tomb of Askia
- Mexico: Oaxaca and Monte Alban Palenque Teotihuacan Sian Ka'an Chichen-Itza Campeche El Tajin Hospicio Cabañas Mexico City and Xochimilco Morelia Puebla Querétaro Tlacotalpan Uxmal Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino Xochicalco Zacatecas Calakmul Luis Barragán House and Studio Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve San Miguel de Allende Tequila Camino Real Caves of Yagul and Mitla Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley Gulf of California Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum Puebla (extension) Central University City Campus of the UNAM Guanajuato Popocatepetl monasteries
- Moldova: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Montenegro: Venetian Works of Defence
- Morocco: Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou Medina of Fez Medina of Marrakesh Meknes Volubilis Medina of Essaouira Rabat
- Mozambique: iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP
- Myanmar: Bagan Inle Lake
- Nepal: Kathmandu Valley Chitwan National Park Lumbini Sagarmatha National Park
- Netherlands: Dutch Water Defence Lines Kinderdijk Schokland Beemster Polder Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal Wadden Sea Van Nellefabriek Colonies of Benevolence Eisinga Planetarium Lower German Limes Amsterdam Canal Ring Rietveld Schröderhuis
- New Zealand: Tongariro National Park Te Wahipounamu Waitangi Treaty Grounds historic precinct Waters and seabed of Fiordland
- North Macedonia: Primeval Beech Forests
- Norway: Bryggen Rock Art of Alta Røros Urnes Stave Church Struve Geodetic Arc West Norwegian Fjords The Lofoten islands
- Oman: Land of Frankincense Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn Bahla Fort Qalhat Aflaj irrigation system
- Pakistan: Fort and Shalamar Gardens Moenjodaro Taxila
- Palestine: Bethlehem Battir
- Panama: The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá Portobelo-San Lorenzo Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves Panamá City
- Peru: Arequipa Chan Chan Chavin Cuzco Huascaran National Park Lima Machu Picchu Manu National Park Nasca Lines Rio Abiseo National Park Caral-Supe Qhapaq Ñan Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex Santa Bárbara Mining Complex Lake Titicaca City of Trujillo
- Philippines: Baroque Churches Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River Vigan Mount Hamiguitan Tabon Cave Coron Island Natural Biotic Area Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Poland: Kraków Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Warsaw Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines Churches of Peace Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska Centennial Hall Primeval Beech Forests Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine Auschwitz Birkenau
- Portugal: Oporto Belem Coa Valley and Siega Verde Sintra Convent of Christ in Tomar Evora Monastery of Alcobaça Monastery of Batalha Guimarães Alto Douro Elvas University of Coimbra Bom Jesus do Monte Vila Viçosa Bulwarked Fortresses of the Raia Pombaline Lisbon Aguas Livres Aqueduct Alvaro Siza's Architecture Bussaco cultural landscape Mafra
- Qatar: Al Zubarah
- Republic of Korea: Changdeokgung Palace Complex Royal Joseon Tombs
- Romania: Dacian Fortresses Monastery of Horezu Sighisoara Villages with Fortified Churches Primeval Beech Forests Roșia Montană
- Russia: Kremlin and Red Square Struve Geodetic Arc
- Rwanda: Memorial Sites of Genocide Nyungwe National Park
- San Marino: San Marino and Mount Titano
- Saudi Arabia: Turaif Quarter
- Singapore: Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Slovakia: Bardejov Town Banska Stiavnica Spissky Hrad and Levoca Vlkolinec Aggtelek and Slovak Karst Primeval Beech Forests Danube Limes Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Slovenia: Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Plečnik's Ljubljana
- South Africa: iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP Maloti-Drakensberg Park Cape Floral Region
- Spain: Granada Atapuerca Caceres Coa Valley and Siega Verde Salamanca Roman Walls of Lugo Segovia Seville Vall de Boi Works of Antoni Gaudí Asturian Monuments Avila Burgos Cathedral El Escurial Las Medulas Mérida Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau Route of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela Toledo Yuso and Suso Monasteries Pyrénées - Mont Perdu Aranjuez Primeval Beech Forests Vizcaya Bridge Tower of Hercules The Silver Route Altamira Cave
- Sri Lanka: Kandy Old Town of Galle Polonnaruva Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple Sigiriya Anuradhapura Central Highlands
- Sweden: High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago Laponian Area Struve Geodetic Arc Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland Gammelstad
- Switzerland: Old City of Berne Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Thailand: Ayutthaya
- Turkiye: Göreme NP and Cappadocia Hattusha Istanbul Nemrut Dag Xanthos-Letoon Hierapolis-Pamukkale Çatalhöyük Pergamon Aphrodisias Ephesus Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Göbekli Tepe Ani
- Ukraine: Struve Geodetic Arc Primeval Beech Forests Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- United Kingdom: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape Blenheim Palace Canterbury City of Bath Durham Castle and Cathedral Edinburgh Frontiers of the Roman Empire Giant's Causeway Maritime Greenwich Stonehenge and Avebury Neolithic Orkney Tower of London Westminster Dorset and East Devon Coast Kew Gardens Forth Bridge Moravian Church Settlements Great Spa Towns of Europe Lake District The Flow Country
- United States of America: Carlsbad Caverns Cahokia Mounds Chaco Culture Hawaii Volcanoes Everglades Great Smoky Mountains Independence Hall La Fortaleza and San Juan Mammoth Cave Mesa Verde Monticello Olympic National Park Redwood Taos Pueblo Statue of Liberty Yellowstone Yosemite National Park Grand Canyon Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Glacier parks Poverty Point Moravian Church Settlements San Antonio Missions Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Hopewell Civil Rights Movement Sites Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Central Park Ellis Island Early Chicago Skyscrapers Mount Vernon Dayton Aviation Sites Petrified Forest National Park Serpent Mound Thomas Jefferson Buildings White Sands National Monument Brooklyn Bridge California Current Conservation Complex Big Bend National Park
- Uruguay: Colonia del Sacramento
- Viet Nam: Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago Hoi An Hué My Son Thang Long
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About Kurt Lauer
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- September 2021
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
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- WHS
- 557
- Tentative Sites
- 92
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World Heritage Sites
- Chola Temples 5.0
- Rani-ki-Vav 5.0
- Sagarmatha National Park 5.0
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 5.0
- Ellora Caves 5.0
- Reims 4.5
- Kathmandu Valley 4.5
- Aachen Cathedral 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Khangchendzonga National Park 4.5
- Baroque Churches 4.0
- Kaziranga National Park 4.0
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 4.0
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 4.0
- SGang Gwaay 4.0
- Nahanni National Park 4.0
- Great Himalayan National Park 4.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 4.0
- Nyungwe National Park 4.0
- Mérida 4.0
- Yakushima 4.0
- Hampi 4.0
- Ajanta Caves 4.0
- Ogasawara Islands 4.0
- Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers 4.0
- Ningaloo Coast 4.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 4.0
- Upper Svaneti 4.0
- Banska Stiavnica 4.0
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya 4.0
- Belfries 4.0
- Rio Abiseo National Park 4.0
- Haghpat and Sanahin 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Caral-Supe 3.5
- Caceres 3.5
- Niah Caves 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 3.5
- Champaner-Pavagadh 3.5
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.5
- Amiens Cathedral 3.5
- Chartres Cathedral 3.5
- Sun Temple, Konarak 3.5
- Shark Bay 3.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.5
- Chan Chan 3.5
- Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple 3.5
- Churches of Peace 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Alto Douro 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Manas Wildlife Sanctuary 3.5
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3.5
- Champagne 3.5
- Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur 3.5
- The Sundarbans 3.5
- Guimarães 3.5
- Sundarbans National Park 3.5
- Mtskheta 3.5
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5
- Churches of Chiloé 3.5
- Amami-Oshima Island 3.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Kinderdijk 3.0
- Chitwan National Park 3.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.0
- Shirakami-Sanchi 3.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3.0
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba 3.0
- Monastery of Geghard 3.0
- Semmering Railway 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Walled City of Baku 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.0
- Pattadakal 3.0
- Mahabalipuram 3.0
- Bardejov Town 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Gelati Monastery 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Vlkolinec 3.0
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 3.0
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 3.0
- Sighisoara 3.0
- Dacian Fortresses 3.0
- Warsaw 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Zollverein 3.0
- Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 3.0
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Shiretoko 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Regensburg 3.0
- Centennial Hall 3.0
- Gobustan Rock Art 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.0
- Margravial Opera House 3.0
- Elvas 3.0
- Western Ghats 3.0
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
- Poverty Point 3.0
- Mount Hamiguitan 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Los Alerces National Park 3.0
- Sheki 3.0
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 3.0
- Mafra 3.0
- Hopewell 3.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 3.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 3.0
- Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands 3.0
- Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex 3.0
- Dholavira: A Harappan City 3.0
- Tokaji Wine Region 2.5
- Holy Trinity Column 2.5
- Sado Island Gold Mines 2.5
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 2.5
- Mountain Railways of India 2.5
- Elephanta Caves 2.5
- Lenggong Valley 2.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 2.5
- Lumbini 2.5
- Al Zubarah 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Stevns Klint 2.5
- Bagerhat 2.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.5
- Nalanda 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Litomysl Castle 2.5
- Holasovice 2.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Vigan 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Trebic 2.5
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 2.5
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5
- Monastery of Horezu 2.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 2.5
- Jelling 2.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 2.0
- Ahmadabad 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2.0
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.0
- Van Nellefabriek 2.0
- Hortobágy 2.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.0
- Willemstad 2.0
- Hollókö 2.0
- Danube Limes 2.0
- Roșia Montană 2.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 2.0
- Santiniketan 2.0
- Wadden Sea 2.0
- Stoclet House 2.0
- Okinoshima Island 2.0
- Turaif Quarter 2.0
- Tugendhat Villa 2.0
- Fagus Factory 2.0
- Provins 2.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 1.5
- Major Town Houses 1.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 1.5
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Le Havre 1.5
- Lower German Limes 1.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.0
- Beemster Polder 1.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Satpura Tiger Reserve
- Mughal Gardens in Kashmir
- Royal Manas National Park (RMNP)
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- White Sands National Monument
- Tabon Cave
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi
- Orchha
- Varanasi
- The Qutb Shahi Monuments of Hyderabad
- Ekamra Kshetra
- Cold Desert Cultural Landscape of India
- Sun Temple, Modhera
- Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam
- Bussaco cultural landscape
- Dayton Aviation Sites
- Mattanchery Palace
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Reviews by Kurt Lauer

Khangchendzonga National Park (Inscribed)
Khangchendzonga National Park

Satpura Tiger Reserve (On tentative list)
Satpura Tiger Reserve
I visited the Satpura Tiger Reserve during Christmas of 2023. Satpura is the largest of the Tiger Reserves in Madhya Pradesh. Due to its larger size Tiger sightings are less …

Deltaic Landscape of Banglade… (On tentative list)
Deltaic Landscape of Bangladesh
The Archeological Sites of the Deltaic Landscape are a series of old mosques and burial sites in Western Bangladesh. Most are well off the beaten path, and even the sites …

The Architectural Works of Mu… (On tentative list)
The Architectural Works of Muzharul Islam
Muzharul Islam is a 20th Century Bangladeshi architect. I never heard of him until I saw that Bangladesh had added a number of his buildings to the TWHS list. Three …